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> Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election

I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".

Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.

It's not about assumptions, it's rationalization. The tribal playbook requires one to demonize the enemy in order to justify what they want to do to them.

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